Not Allowed to Become an Immortal

In this world, whether you can become an immortal depends not only on your spiritual roots, but also on whether your surname is Zhao. The nine major families and the five major sects monopolize all spiritual energy resources. Mortals are just the "reserve" of spiritual roots. The test stone is never to select geniuses, but to mark prey. For five thousand years, mortals have crawled at the feet of monks, thinking that this was destiny. Until a teacher named Chen Taiping spent forty years studying the essence of Reiki and left a mantra before his death. "There is spirit in heaven and earth, and I also cherish it. Take death as proof, and I will return to you too empty." This mantra allows a mortal to detonate a party's spiritual energy with death, causing it to permanently dry up. One year after his death, the spiritual energy of the mainland dropped by 20%. The nine major families and the five major sects gathered to discuss countermeasures, but found that they were being pushed into a dead end step by step: suppression would accelerate their demise, while letting go would lead to death. The strategy of using the ordinary to control the ordinary was predicted one by one by his three last words during his lifetime. The first sentence: "Since mortals cannot cultivate immortality, and non-nine major families and five major sects cannot cultivate immortality, then they should not even think about cultivating immortality." The second sentence: "Mortals find that monsters no longer come down the mountain to eat people, and monks dare not kill mortals at will. This is not their conscience, but they are saving themselves." The third sentence:...... When the superior immortals finally understood this sentence, they discovered: Chen Taiping is long gone, but his fire has just begun to burn.